Is it fairly common to forward port 80 to some higher level port, so the server can run as a non-root user?
I do it out of necessity, but have yet to play with the statistics portion of iptables.
Cool little article.
I do it out of necessity, but have yet to play with the statistics portion of iptables.
Cool little article.
Secondly, you can't (in an easy way) remove or add to the pool of backends.
I'm confident others will come up with more not-so-compelling reasons for using iptables for load balancing.